Bug#670462: linux-2.6: Support new armhf kernel variant for Versatile Express (vexpress)

2012-04-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
2012-04-25 12:52:15.0 -0700 +++ debian/changelog2012-04-25 13:13:40.0 -0700 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +linux-2.6 (3.2.15-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + [ Vagrant Cascadian ] + * [armhf/vexpress] New kernel variant to support Versatile Express. + + -- Vagrant Cascadian Wed, 25 Ap

Re: linux-image-3.11-2-armmp_3.11.8-1_armhf not include AHCI_IMX

2013-12-17 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 09:58:17AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 13:31 +0800, Niew, Sh. wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 13:54 +0800, Niew, Sh. wrote: > > > [...] > > >> Is it ahci_imx need ahci_platform compile with yes?

Re: Another "new" ARM plateform

2013-12-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:14:49PM +, David Pottage wrote: > On 25/12/13 17:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >just something for people's attention, this is a pretty damn good find > >by erix: quad-core 1ghz iMX6, it has 2gb of RAM, SATA, GbE and a full > >MiniPCIe slot (not just USB-o

Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports

2014-04-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 04:28:45PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Given that, it seems like a good time to add arm64 to src:linux with a > > configuration that will run on at least a typical QEMU ARM64 emulation. > > AIUI qemu 2.0 only does

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-04-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:01:06PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I think u-boot has some sh-style control loops you can use? (for x in > > fstype1 fstype2; do ...). People keep saying one can just use "fsload" > > too, but I've n

Re: Booting armmp kernel on Beaglebone Black

2014-05-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 09:34:04PM -0400, James Valleroy wrote: > The 2nd version of this script [2] uses the kernel and dtbs from > debian's linux-image-armmp package. But I can't get farther than > "Starting kernel ..." (log is at [3]). I just submitted a patch to the BTS to enable some options

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:39:09PM +0100, RichardBown wrote: > and trying to run > sudo debootstrap --arch armel wheezey work/ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian > > E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/wheezey Try "wheezy" instead. :P live well, vagrant signature.asc Description

Re: wanted debootstrap script for wheezey or later armel

2014-05-16 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0100, peter green wrote: > To do the second stage you have two options. Either you can do the second > stage with user mode qemu or you can do it on the device. To do it with qemu > you would do. > > apt-get install qemu-arm-static binfmt-support > cp /usr/bin/q

Re: Support for sunxi-based ARM systems in d-i

2014-05-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 07:41:58PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > attached is a small patch against flash-kernel to add machine db > entries for the Cubieboard 1/2 and the Mele A1000. ... > I'll probably get access to a Cubieboard2 sometime next week and > will test an installation on it, but for

Re: Cubox-i with Debian Stock Kernel

2014-05-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 05:33:14PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I did not have Debian's u-boot. I tested it now, but does not work at all > for me. > > > I dd ed SPL and u-boot.img from /usr/lib/u-boot/mx6_cubox-i/. > > But that did not change anything for bootz, still it does not detect the >

Re: Cubox-i with Debian Stock Kernel

2014-05-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 07:13:49PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Friday 30 May 2014 09:53:09 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 05:33:14PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: ... > > bootcmd=run loadkernel ; run loadinitrd ; run loadfdt ; bootz ${loadaddr} &g

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add support for the CuBox-i.

2014-05-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 07:59:29PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 17:27 +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > diff --git a/db/all.db b/db/all.db > > index 68f85b4..dce775d 100644 > > --- a/db/all.db > > +++ b/db/all.db > > @@ -436,6 +436,23 @@ Boot-DTB-Path: /boot/dtb > > Required-P

Re: Cubox-i with Debian Stock Kernel

2014-05-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:36:03PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > 3) The functionality is limited, e.g. no video out, only serial console > > Not a serious issue for me, because that is enough is running for my usecase > right now. But I wanted to mention that in case others follow that way and > o

Re: Cubox-i with Debian Stock Kernel

2014-05-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:40:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Friday 30 May 2014 12:44:59 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Is also support for wireless included? > > According to http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cubox-i#Wifi > > CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=y > CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=y >

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-06-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:36:43PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > root@bokocube:~# cat /root/boot.cmd > 5# boot script for CuBox-i > > setenv device mmc > setenv partition ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} > setenv bootargs 'quiet' > > image_locations='/boot/ /' > kvers='3.15-rc8-armmp' > > for pathprefix in

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-06-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:56:01PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:36:43PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > It looks like you might not have set a console device, so > possibly the kernel boots, but you do not see any output. Try > setting the console device on the kernel co

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-06-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 08:36:33AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2014 14:48:08 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:36:43PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I use your original boot.scr with an adapted bootargs: ... > Variables set as you did,

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-06-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Merging both replies into a single email here... On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:43:13PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2014 00:23:07 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > My hunch is loading your bootscript to an alternate address is somehow > > causing an issue... >

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-06-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:11:13PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi Vagrant, > > On Sunday 15 June 2014 12:14:03 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > So, either remove or move uImage elsewhere, or change the search order to > > seach /boot first: > > > > setenv boot_pr

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-06-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2014 16:01:48 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > The problem was caused by the existence of /uImage, I renamed that (and > > /ramdisk) and the problem went away. > > BTW, I do not see anywhere a reference to /uImage in boo

u-boot search order (Re: flash-kernel and dtb)

2014-06-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:34:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:58:25AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:11:13PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 June 2014 12:14:03 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > >

Re: Cubox-i framebuffer support

2014-06-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 07:22:36PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > you updated https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort/CuBox-i with > > "The 3.15.1-1~exp1+ kernel in experimental also includes support for > framebuffer video over HDMI." ... > and get console output on HDMI. It is not entirely ali

Re: Debian platform firmware strategy?

2014-07-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:24:31AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Platform firmware is an odd beast in the world of software. Thanks for raising this challenging topic! > On ARM the platform firmware is way less standardised but is often > u-boot. u-boot mainline is packaged and apparently has suppo

Re: Notes on cubox-i installation

2014-07-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 02:20:03PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have reinstalled my cubox-i and I revised my notes and want to share them > > http://bokomoko.de/~rd/Debian/cubox-i-notes.txt > > since they have been useful for me during reinstallation. Thanks for sharing your thorough notes!

updating Sheevaplug and Openrd patches for u-boot v2014.07

2014-07-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
I've been working on updating to the soon-to-be-released u-boot v2014.07, but the armel builds fail with the openrd_ultimate and sheevaplug targets. Without the debian-specific patches, it builds fine, but also may lack sata, mmc and/or other features that have been present in Debian's u-boot pack

Re: updating Sheevaplug and Openrd patches for u-boot v2014.07

2014-07-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:30:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > the debian-specific patches > > Would it be possible to get these merged upstream so we don't have > this issue in future? I new I left som

Re: updating Sheevaplug and Openrd patches for u-boot v2014.07

2014-07-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:04:49AM +0200, drEagle wrote: > My patch was taken by Debian (thanks for this) the only MMC enabled uboot for > SheevaPlugs. > > Mainline u-boot had (again) change the initialization process for MMC [1] so > I had made some quick revisions of the MVSDIO driver. > > >>

Re: updating Sheevaplug and Openrd patches for u-boot v2014.07

2014-07-10 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:47:18AM +0200, drEagle wrote: > On 10/07/2014 21:30, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:04:49AM +0200, drEagle wrote: > > openrd_ultimate still fails to build: > > You need to add #define CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC inside the MMC block

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-07-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Control: tags 751816 patch On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I think the patch below resolves the worst issue and it works for me on > cubietruck. > > The more minor stuff mentioned in that report I'm not sure it is > actually worth worrying over. The main one seems

Re: flash-kernel and dtb

2014-07-12 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 16:33 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:03:30PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > I think the patch below resolves the worst issue and it works for me o

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 > Neil Williams wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:32:46 +0100 > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Why ISOs BTW? They don't seem all that typical on ARM systems, > > > > As a route to the default pack

Re: Cubox i2ultra does not boot with Debian u-boot

2014-07-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 01:39:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > At the end, it turned out that Debian u-boot does not work for the cubox- > i2ultra. The u-boot SPL is not started on the cubox-i2ultra (i.e. no outputs > on the serial console, no red front light). Thanks for testing! Sorry to hear

Re: Cubox i2ultra does not boot with Debian u-boot

2014-07-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:38:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:37:39AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > But yes, 2014.07-rc4 appears to include support for SPL on imx6, although > > the only board using it is gw_ventana. It might be feasible to

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 08:57:15AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:29:39 -0700 > Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:48:54 +0100 > > > Neil Williams w

Re: DTBs in cd images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:22:04 +0100 Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 11:48 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Is there even any ARM platform out there with a optical drive on it? > > ISOs are not just about optical driv

Re: DTBs in images, kexec & installer testing

2014-07-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 12:54:06PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 09:29:39 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian > wrote: > > I've been enabling things like bootz and ext4 support in recently > > added boards in Debian's u-boot, I can look into enabling for th

Re: Cubox-i-notes questions

2014-08-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-03, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> Debian jessie could likely go final around December and >> predictions are the jessie kernel will be 3.16. My hope is full support for >> the Cubox hardware is mainlined into the 3.16 by then - a year after I >> purchased the device. > > I am not a kernel ex

Re: Beaglebone Black - best way to install Jessie?

2014-08-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-20, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater > wrote: >> I've a Beaglebone Black running Debian 7.6 with some wheezy-backports >> packages. This is installed on both the internal eMMC flash and also >> 7.6 installed on the SD card. >> >> What's the best

updating Sheevaplug and Openrd patches for u-boot v2014.10

2014-09-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-08-06 22:39:38 -0700, Gérald Kerma wrote: > On 07/08/2014 07:19, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 06:11 +0200, Gérald Kerma wrote: >>> Thank's to Debian team who add support of all versions of MVSDIO driver in >>> the debian u-boot package. >> >> Will these be merged too? > > Th

looking for u-boot testers

2014-09-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
I'm looking for people willing to test u-boot targets on an ongoing basis for various platforms. While I have a handful of boards I can test on, I don't have the hardware or perhaps more importantly, the time to always test on all of them. I hope this sounds like a reasonable approach to folks...

Re: A10-OLinuXino-LIME board

2014-09-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-07 13:48:30 -0500, Karsten Merker wrote: > Vagrant, if possible it would be nice if you could enable the > following targets in your next build of u-boot 2014.10 for armhf: > > A10-OLinuXino-Lime > A10s-OLinuXino-M > A13-OLinuXino > A13-OLinuXinoM > A20-OLinuXino_MICRO > Cubieboard2 > Cu

Re: A10-OLinuXino-LIME board

2014-09-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-07 13:48:30 -0500, Karsten Merker wrote: > Vagrant, if possible it would be nice if you could enable the > following targets in your next build of u-boot 2014.10 for armhf: > > A10-OLinuXino-Lime > A10s-OLinuXino-M > A13-OLinuXino > A13-OLinuXinoM > A20-OLinuXino_MICRO > Cubieboard2 > Cu

u-boot split for many targets

2014-09-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-08 04:26:48 -0500, Ian Campbell wrote: > Ideally we would build FEL variants for all sunxi boards, but we don't > have _FEL defconfigs for everything upstream. Hans (my co-custodian) > rightly doesn't want to duplicate every defconfig twice. > > At the weekend I was playing with the two

Re: u-boot split for many targets

2014-09-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-08 11:54:01 -0500, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 11:31 -0500, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> I'm wondering if u-boot shouldn't just take advantage of executable >> debhelper files or arch-specific debhelper files and simplify >> debian/rules con

Re: [RFC] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-09-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-21 17:17:23 -0500, Karsten Merker wrote: > I believe that on armhf systems a tarball makes more sense than > a disk image for the following reasons: Thanks for working on this! > - We do not install a boot sector on armhf but just a u-boot > script. This is a normal file which can

Re: Enabling A20-OLinuXino-LIME support in u-boot (was: A10-OLinuXino-LIME board)

2014-09-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-17 07:13:45 -0500, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2014-09-13 10:53, Karsten Merker wrote: >> Vagrant, as Christian has comitted to provide testing on the >> A20-OLinuXino-LIME, could you enable that target as well with >> the next upstream release? Should hit experimental shortly, along

Re: [PATCH V2] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-09-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-30 15:47:13 -0700, Karsten Merker wrote: > * Add the "console=" parameter to bootargs only if ${console} > is set. ... > diff --git a/build/boot/arm/bootscr.mainline_common > b/build/boot/arm/bootscr.mainline_common ... > +if test -z "${console}"; then > + setenv bootargs "${boot

Re: debian u-boot and the 2GB nitrogen6x.

2014-10-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-10-03, peter green wrote: > I started looking for ways to make the boot script detect whether it was > running on the boundary u-boot or the debian u-boot. There is apparently > a u-boot variable called "ver" but unfortunately neither the debian or > the boundary u-boot had it turned on.

Re: ARM on Debian's Hardware Wanted web page?

2014-10-22 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-10-19, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:27:30AM -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >>>* Paul Wise [2014-10-18 15:58]: Debian's "hardware wanted" web page says that the ARM porters (Riku Voipio and Martin Michlmayr

Re: [PATCH V2] d-i hd-media support for armhf

2014-11-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-10-01, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:01:44AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Karsten Merker (2014-10-01): > attached is V3 of the patch. I have run a full armhf installer > build with it without problems and I have done two test installs > on a Cubietruck with the re

Re: armhf Installer Image

2014-11-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-11-10, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:52:54PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> I am wondering if there is a debian installer image for armhf for cubox- >> i/armhf. >> >> If yes, any documentation on how the installer process works (e.g. boots >> from >> USB, installs on

Re: armhf Installer Image

2014-11-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-11-15, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2014 11:51:05 Karsten Merker wrote: > What is the difference between u-boot-spl.bin and SPL in ... > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31744 Nov 2 01:32 SPL > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 302872 Nov 2 01:32 uboot.elf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236248

Bug#770666: partman-base: partman overwrites parts of u-boot (imx6/am335x)

2014-11-22 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Package: partman-base Version: 179 Severity: important Tags: patch Several armhf platforms have u-boot installed directly to the device in an area which gets wiped out by partman. This results in debian-installer producing a "successful" install, but zeros out the location of the bootloader in the

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-03, Karsten Merker wrote: > several armhf systems do not have u-boot (or another firmware) in > non-volatile (i.e. ROM/Flash) memory, but instead store their > system firmware on a removable medium such as an SD card. ... > Debian provides appropriate u-boot images for several supported

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-06, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:10:37PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > [providing u-boot images for armhf platforms that do not have > u-boot in non-volatile storage] ... > I guess it would make sense to provide both the "naked" u-b

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-18, Karsten Merker wrote: > just to avoid double work: I have recently started working on implementing > image building support (both for "bare" u-boot images as well as for "full" > images with u-boot + kernel + initrd) and I hope to find some time over > Christmas to finish a working p

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-23, Karsten Merker wrote: > Attached is a set of patches to implement building bootable > d-i images for armhf systems. It offers various options: > > - provide binary "u-boot-only" images for people who want to > manually install u-boot and e.g. run the rest of the setup via > tftp

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-26, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 02:17:16PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2014-12-23, Karsten Merker wrote: >> I don't think it's possible yet to have the device-independent parts >> working with *all* platforms (at least fo

Re: Debian in a Pcduino3

2014-12-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-28, Karsten Merker wrote: > If they do, > we will also need to enable building u-boot for the pcduino3 > (CCing Vagrant Cascadian, the u-boot maintainer). > > @Vagrant: the board is supported in u-boot v2014-10 > (Linksprite_pcDuino3_defconfig). Happy to enable it in

Re: Bug#773890: flash-kernel: No entry for BeagleBone Black when running 3.18 kernel

2014-12-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-28, Ian Campbell wrote: > OOI, do you know how broken the white is when booting with the black's > DTB? Completely unusable, missing some minor peripheral or somewhere in > the middle? They are very similar, but I'm not familiar enough with the white to know for sure. Maybe someone on

Re: Bug#773890: flash-kernel: No entry for BeagleBone Black when running 3.18 kernel

2014-12-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-28, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2014-12-28, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> OOI, do you know how broken the white is when booting with the black's >>> DTB? Completely unusable, missing some minor pe

Re: Bug#773890: flash-kernel: No entry for BeagleBone Black when running 3.18 kernel

2014-12-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-29, Ian Campbell wrote: > Given the beaglebone specific findfdt which Robert links to above Several other ti platforms also use findfdt, FWIW. > could we add a check to bootscr.beaglebone which refuses to boot on a > white? (looks like we can look at $board_name directly). Yes, that

Re: Bug#773890: flash-kernel: No entry for BeagleBone Black when running 3.18 kernel

2014-12-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-29, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 08:48 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2014-12-29, Ian Campbell wrote: >> > could we add a check to bootscr.beaglebone which refuses to boot on a >> > white? (looks like we can look at $board_name directl

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2014-12-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-30, Ian Campbell wrote: > I should start by saying that I'm not personally particularly interested > in this functionality, but I don't want to be a blocker for people who > are so since I've been asked I'll give my 2pence... Thanks for taking the time. > I've been wondering if this i

Re: [PATCH V3 4/6] Add SD-card image build support for hd-media builds on armhf

2015-01-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-01-01, Karsten Merker wrote: > +++ b/build/boot/README.concatenateable_images ... > +To create a complete image from the two parts on Linux systems, you can > +use zcat (for .gz images), bzcat (for .bz2 images) or xzcat (for .xz > +images) as follows: > + > + zcat firmware..img.gz partitio

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-01-02, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 13:42 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2014-12-30, Ian Campbell wrote: >> I think the difference is one is a set of netboot images, and the other >> is a set of hd-media images. > > But what is the d

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-01-07, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 08:59 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2015-01-02, Ian Campbell wrote: >> > On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 13:42 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> >> On 2014-12-30, Ian Campbell wrote: > But I still have a qu

Re: Providing (armhf) u-boot images together with d-i images?

2015-01-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-01-05, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Karsten Merker (2015-01-02): >> Ok, I'll change the wording for V4. My intention was to provide a >> generic README that works regardless of which compression options >> one chooses in the makefile, so that switching from .gz to .xz >> would be simple withou

Bug#778783: src:linux: [armhf] Enable CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_GPIO for armmp

2015-02-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please consider enabling CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_GPIO as a module in the armmp kernel. This module enables support for the BeagleBone Black with the LCD7 cape (although still requires a custom .dtb). It may also be useful to other

Re: Reboot on Banana Pi not working?

2015-03-13 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-03-13, Stuart Winter wrote: > Trying to reboot on my Banana Pi using this kernel doesn't work -the OS > shuts down but the Banana Pi never reboots. > I had a look at the Fedora Kernel (Linux 4.x) which has the same problem. > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/kernel-image-

u-boot: OpenRD Ultimate fails to build

2015-03-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
It seems that OpenRD Ultimate with u-boot 2015.04-rc3 and newer no longer builds from source, both in Debian and with mainline git. It appears to have overgrown the size limits set for it: OBJCOPY u-boot.srec OBJCOPY u-boot.bin u-boot.bin exceeds file size limit: limit: 393216 bytes actua

Re: [PATCH] Remove the incorrect MMC driver from guruplug debian patch

2015-03-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-03-28, Gerald Kerma wrote: > Signed-off-by: Gerald Kerma > --- > debian/patches/guruplug_mvfs_and_mmc.diff | 10 -- > 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) Thanks for the patches! It would be best to submit these as bugs against u-boot, rather than the debian-arm list. What u-boot ve

Re: [U-Boot] u-boot: OpenRD Ultimate fails to build

2015-04-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-03-25, drEagle wrote: > Le 21/03/2015 15:53, Vagrant Cascadian a écrit : >> It seems that OpenRD Ultimate with u-boot 2015.04-rc3 and newer no >> longer builds from source, both in Debian and with mainline git. It >> appears to have overgrown the size limits set for i

Re: u-boot image for Olimex A20-Olinuxino Micro

2015-04-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-03-31, Arne Ploese wrote: > So I got this to work... > > 1. Build u-boot for micro: > Get the sources: > $apt-get --compile --host-architecture=armhf source u-boot-sunxi > after build failed > $cd u-boot-2014.10+dfsg1 > $make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- A20-OLinuXino_MICRO_defconfig

Re: [PATCH] Remove the incorrect MMC driver from guruplug debian patch

2015-04-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-03-29, drEagle wrote: > Already done for guruplug so the actual debian patch can be removed. > >> What u-boot versions should they be applied to? > > upstream aster since 201501. Thanks for getting patches upstream! Ok, I've removed the patch in the experimental-2014.04 branch in Debian's

Re: u-boot-omap fails to boot panda-es

2015-04-20 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-04-20, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:21:52 -0500 > Robert Nelson wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Robert Nelson >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Neil Williams >> > wrote: >> >> These instructions: https://wiki.debian.org/PandaBoard don't give a

Re: Debian Jessie install on Cubox-i4pro eSATA drive?

2015-04-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-04-29, Rick Thomas wrote: > Now that I’ve got my cubox-i4pro running from the micro-SD card, I’d > like to try getting it to run from my eSATA disk (which is *much* > faster than the uSD card!) > > I assume there is some u-boot magic needed to make this work? Anything else? You need to st

Re: Debian net install SD to emmc flash

2015-05-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-04-27, Nigel Sollars wrote: > I was wondering if someone could give the steps of installing Jessie from a > netinstall to a micro sd card ( say for a BeagleBone Black ) .. then when > the install is complete, what would be the requirements to push that to > the emmc flash?. Unfortunately,

Re: Debian Jessie install on Cubox-i4pro eSATA drive?

2015-05-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-04-29, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Apr 29, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2015-04-29, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Now that I’ve got my cubox-i4pro running from the micro-SD card, I’d >>> like to try getting it to run from my eSATA disk (which is *much* &

Re: u-boot-omap fails to boot panda-es

2015-05-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-04-20, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Neil Williams wrote: >> These instructions: https://wiki.debian.org/PandaBoard don't give a >> bootable SD card for the panda-es: >> >> U-Boot SPL 2014.10+dfsg1-5 (Apr 07 2015 - 22:19:50) >> OMAP4460 ES1.1 >> SPL: Please implem

Re: Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD "Base" computer?

2015-06-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
r, I >> noticed that even the Ultimate target was removed in Debian's u-boot >> recently: >> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/u-boot.git/commit/debian/targets?id=ea2f6ce84b7788cda2cb7deb29690cb368451e8c >> >> So if you want to work out why it doesn'

Re: U-Boot, d-i and selecting the console device

2015-06-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-06-21, Karsten Merker wrote: > If we don't pass a console variable to the kernel, d-i starts > on the console device defined by the platform's stdout-path > property, i.e. usually on a serial console - again bad luck > for people having only a framebuffer console. > > If we set the console

Re: Olinuxino Lime2

2015-07-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-07-19, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I have a Lime2 and it works with the Olimex Debian image, but I want to > use the Debian installer. > > I've downloaded the lime2 firmware and partition.img.gz and put this on > a SD-card following the wiki [1]. > > I don't see a DHCP request on the server

Re: What is in the U-boot "default environment"?

2015-08-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-08-25, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:53 AM, Tim Fletcher wrote: >>> On 25 Aug 2015, at 01:39, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> What is in the default environment? >>> It boots just fine, so the default environment must be up to the job, but >>> I’m curious. >> It's part of the u-boot

Re: Bug#762634: initramfs-tools: [armhf] mounting rootfs on USB disk fails / some USB host controller drivers missing in initramfs

2015-11-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-09-30, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 08:19 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 00:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > However, at the moment initramfs-tools won't include PHY drivers even in >> > that configuration. >> >> I spent some time last week hunting f

Re: Running Debian from a USB-drive on a Cubox-i 4

2015-11-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-11-19, Pierre wrote: > I've bootstrapped Jessie on my Cubox-i 4 following instructions from > http://techieventures.blogspot.ca/2014/10/install-debian-jessie-with-debian-u.html. I'd recommend trying the images for debian-installer instead, as those *should* set up booting correctly: ht

Re: Running Debian from a USB-drive on a Cubox-i 4

2015-11-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-11-21, Pierre wrote: > On Thursday 19 November 2015 21:13:34 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> But in general, I'd recommend against using uEnv.txt, as it's not >> supported in mainline u-boot for the Cubox-i, and not supported in newer >> versions of u-boot i

Re: Running Debian from a USB-drive on a Cubox-i 4

2015-11-23 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-11-23, Pierre wrote: > Objective: Install Debian Jessie on a USB hard drive for a Cubox-i 4Pro > > Steps: > 1. On a linux host, create a bootable SD card with Debian installer image from > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-image

Re: Mainstream Debian on Raspberry Pi 2

2015-12-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-12-01, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:10 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> > With respect to mainline kernel support, this page shows a pretty good >> > picture: >> > http://elinux.org/RPi_Upstreaming >> > >> > Many of the drivers are already upstreamed or queued for 4.4

Re: Mainstream Debian on Raspberry Pi 2

2015-12-09 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-12-09, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > A quirk of the RPi appears to be with with the standard loader (i.e. > rather than going via something like U-Boot) it doesn't use an initrd. > This appears to be causing people problems if they want to do something > like moving their main filesystem on

test u-boot on a riotboard?

2015-12-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Anyone able to commit to testing new u-boot versions with a riotboard: https://wiki.debian.org/U-boot If you have a riotboard, and wouldn't mind committing to testing new versions and being called on to troubleshoot issues, please respond to the bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/807850 l

Cubieboard4, u-boot, flash-kernel

2015-12-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
I'm trying to get a Cubieboard4 board booting. It looks like the Cubieboard4 has support in mainline linux since at least 4.2 (so should work with jessie-backports), but I can't find a u-boot that will boot it... I see that Karsten added a flash-kernel entry for it, but it isn't supported in main

Re: question -- does this look right to you?

2016-01-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > When running Debian (Sid, in this case) and I do “fw_printenv” it > gives an error message about a bad CRC and using default environment… > >> rbthomas@sheeva:~$ sudo fw_printenv >> Warning: Bad CRC, using default environment >> bootargs= >> bootcmd= ... > This i

sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> The only thing I see that looks like a warning is a mention of it not >> using “generic board”. > > It turns out that this may, in fact, be relevant. Googling for > “README.generic-board” gives > > https://

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-05 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-05, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Well, I would like to know if the newer versions in Debian are or aren't >> working, if you'd be willing to try. They do still build in 2016.01~rc3, >> so newer versions

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-06, Rick Thomas wrote: > I’ll try your 2016.01~rc3+dfsg1-3 from experimental as soon as I can. Great, thanks. > Just to be sure of what I need to do: > > 1) Install the new versions of Debian packages for u-boot and u-boot-tools on > my test SheevaPlug Debian (currently running Sid)

Re: sheeveplug u-boot environment

2016-01-06 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-06, Rick Thomas wrote: > For what it’s worth, by grepping about in /dev/mtd0, I located what > seems to be the place where the u-boot environment is located. > > It’s 0x8. > > And to verify that, I have changed /etc/fw_env.config to > >> # MTD device name Device offset Env. size

Re: u-boot images for OpenRD

2016-01-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-01-11, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:39:13 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> Martin Michlmayr writes: >> > * Albert ARIBAUD [2016-01-01 13:58]: ... >> > I see that you've re-introduced OpenRD support upstream, including >> > support for OpenRD-Base and OpenRD-Client. > > Ye

Re: Cubieboard4, u-boot, flash-kernel

2016-01-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-12-29, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 12:15 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 02:45:33PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> > I'm trying to get a Cubieboard4 board booting. >> > >> > It looks like the Cubieboard4

Re: bananaPro | debian jessie doesn't boot; trying to establish a serial connection

2016-02-11 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2016-02-11, toogley wrote: > i have a Banana Pro which i want to boot a debian jessie from. I know > HDMI doesn't work, so I want to have a serial connection for configuring > ssh. ... > 4. My Banana Pro has three pins in the corner of the LAN Port. I've > connected my > Pins accoring tha

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